As companies continue to rely on the cloud to deliver their more business-critical systems, they must consider how much they can trust this new paradigm. For a cloud solution to be robust enough to host the most important systems, it must be built on top of a virtualization stack that can deliver the necessary service levels…
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Why System z for the Cloud?
Consider System z for the cloud because it’s:…
Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company delivering a new generation of APM, announced today the convergence of dynaTracePurePath® Technology and the Gomez Performance Network, creating the industry's most powerful User Experience Management (UEM) solution. Compuware now offers the industry's only APMaaS solution that provides a complete UEM offering, including real-user, synthetic, third-party service monitoring and business impact analysis. Compuware's APMaaS delivery model, auto-instrumentation and single-click to root cause diagnostics for both real user and synthetic transactions provides the deepest and broadest insight into application performance with the fastest time-to-value…
Batch processing is traditionally used for reconciling and reporting transactions at the end of the day, week, month or quarter. It’s used in many business activities from payment processing to bill-ing, stock control, credit scoring, interest calculations and more. Batch applications have proved over the years to be an efficient, reliable method for bulk processing of updates to data…
An Interview With Rich Guski
Enterprise Executive sat down with Rich Guski, who recently retired from IBM, to get his insight into current and future security trends he sees. Rich was a key participant in RACF security development and also the architect of several CICS security functions that shipped with RACF for z/OS 1.10 during his 27-year tenure with IBM. He’s also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), as defined by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2.
Enterprise Executive: Rich, what are you currently doing now that you’ve retired from IBM?…
HostBridge Technology, provider of high-precision Web services integration and optimization software for CICS® and System z®, has released HostBridge v6.62. Complementing recent enhancements in CICS TS V5.1, HostBridge v6.62 helps organizations increase efficiency and service agility when using CICS, CICS socket applications, and DB2® in enterprise integration…
IBM announced new servers using the newest POWER7+ chip in October 2012. The plus (+) designation is an approach IBM has used before; most recently with the POWER6+, and before that with POWER5+, to signify chip enhancements short of a full chip revision. POWER7+ provides some substantial improvements, but those expecting POWER8, which IBM has been telegraphing for months, will be disappointed. Still, there’s much in POWER7+ to help Power shops improve overall system performance…
Each day, mainframe applications support billions of online banking and mobile device-initiated e-commerce transactions across the globe. These applications are often deceivingly simple on the front-end—hit a few keys on your phone and a few days later a package arrives in the mail. We tend to take the stability and reliability of mainframe applications for granted, but the fact is these applications are highly complex. They require massive amounts of development, testing and quality assurance work within short periods of time to bring high-quality software products to market quickly…
There was a time when IT determined the computing services that business users were allowed to have and how those services would be accessed. Those days are long gone. With the advent of mobile devices and social media, the center of gravity has shifted, and users are driving IT to behave differently and deliver computing services in new ways. This phenomenon has been coined “the consumerization of IT,” and it has far-reaching effects on the IT organization, including the choices that IT makes for infrastructure and automation tools…
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